The July gathering
OpenAI's Women in AI meetup in London on 15 July 2026 brought together people exploring practical uses of AI. Organiser Dr Lauren Ingram's recap names four panellists, two OpenAI contributors and the team who helped make the event happen. These profiles follow that recap and independently checked professional sources.
Victoria Weller
Victoria Weller leads operations at ElevenLabs, helping scale the infrastructure, processes and teams behind its audio AI technology. Her work connects rapid product growth with the systems a global company needs. With earlier experience at Palantir, she brings a practical perspective on how ambitious AI companies organise themselves and grow.
Charlotte Byrne
Charlotte Byrne is Capco's Executive Director and UK Lead for GenAI. She helps financial institutions connect AI strategy, governance and delivery with practical business needs, from customer experience to operations and risk. Her work combines responsible innovation with a focus on useful outcomes, and she champions greater participation by women in data and AI.
Nikita Pillai
Nikita Pillai is Principal and International Fintech Partnerships Lead at Intuit. She connects financial technology businesses with products that help small companies manage payments and access capital. With experience spanning AI, data strategy and consulting, she brings a practical commercial perspective to building partnerships and helping useful financial tools reach businesses across international markets.
Cien Solon
Cien Solon is the founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade, helping people turn business knowledge into useful AI assistants without writing code. Her background includes product leadership and AI for regulated businesses. Her work focuses on making AI more accessible while helping teams stay in control of what their assistants know and how they operate.
Stephanie Tran
Stephanie Tran is an Account Director for EMEA at OpenAI. Through OpenAI Academy's small-business programme, she has presented practical ChatGPT workflows for everyday tasks such as marketing, customer messages and operations. She moderated the July Women in AI panel, connecting the speakers' experiences with an audience exploring how to put AI to work.
Tricia Troth
Tricia Troth is OpenAI's Head of GTM for Startups in EMEA, working with founders, startup teams, investors and ecosystem partners. Her focus is helping businesses use AI to build useful products, create value for customers and grow responsibly. She connects emerging capabilities with the practical decisions founders face as they develop ideas and scale their companies.
Organisers and collaborators
The organiser's recap also recognises the following women for their contributions to curating and supporting the meetup.
Dr Lauren Ingram
Dr Lauren Ingram founded Next Big Thing to make AI and emerging technology more accessible. An AI trainer, speaker and community builder, she advocates for women's participation in the field and hosts the AI Girl Gang podcast. She helped curate the July meetup, bringing together people with different experiences of building and working with AI.
Abby Guthkelch
Abby Guthkelch helps build OpenAI's Women in AI community, bringing together engineers, founders, marketers and creative leaders. Her public updates describe a community shaped by practical use cases, honest questions and learning together. That work aims to give more women confidence to experiment with AI, share what they discover and help others take their next step.
Leila Woodington
Leila Woodington leads OpenAI's B2B marketing across EMEA, helping organisations understand how AI can support their work. She was among the collaborators credited for the July Women in AI meetup. Her participation in the wider community connects that business perspective with opportunities for women to exchange practical experiences, ask questions and build confidence together.
Lou Humphrey
Lou Humphrey works with OpenAI's EMEA Events team, helping bring people together around AI. Her public updates describe a team delivering experiences across planning, operations, guest experience and on-site production. Lauren Ingram credited her among the July meetup's collaborators, recognising the event work that supports shared learning and a growing community.
Charlotte Barette
Charlotte Barette was among the collaborators Lauren Ingram thanked for supporting the July Women in AI meetup. Her contribution is credited here as part of the team that made the gathering possible.